That depends on the statutes they violated.
You need to be very careful in the way that you attempt to create sympathy for the defendants. If the Judge that hears the case becomes aware of all the histrionics you're posting he may tend to make the sentences on the higher end of the scale.
"You need to be very careful in the way that you attempt to create sympathy for the defendants. If the Judge that hears the case becomes aware of all the histrionics you're posting he may tend to make the sentences on the higher end of the scale."
That judge better worry about the backlash. The worse the sentence, the more he falls into a longterm pit of his own making. We will go over his head, and he can become the poster boy of liberal judges. I'm fed up with our baby-killing law. There's no need to draw a line in the sand. They've walked over it long ago.